[pct-l] Language on the Trail

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_natelafranchi at yahoo.com_ (mailto:natelafranchi at yahoo.com)   writes: More and 
more people will seek refuge in places like the  PCT
everyday.  It is inevitable. 
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It is interesting that the only thing I notice different on the PCT and JMT  
in the Sierras are a few more ruts as people make trails next to the older 
trail  trace.  I first hiked on the JMT and PCT in 1970.  Looks about the  same 
to me today as then except the trail might be a little more worn.  And  I am 
not sure about that except in certain areas.
 
But you go 10 feet off the trail,  and everything is the same.  That is what 
I like about Mother Nature.   It does not take too much time to heal and 
replace.  Well, in human term  may be it takes a long time, but in the grand scheme 
of things it is  nothing.
 
Outside of some domesticated animals and plants, if we all disappeared  
tomorrow, all the world's living things would not wake up the next day and say,  
"Hey, where did all the humans go?"  "Boy, I sure miss them." "This place  is 
not going to be same without them." "What are we going to do now?" "I  guess we 
are going to have to learn to carry on without them." "What a  bummer not to 
have those good old humans around."
 
We would not be missed one second and everything would go along just  fine.  
That is how important we are.  What a joke we are with our ego  and self 
importance.  We are nothing, even with our supposed mastery of the  earth.  We are 
really just part of the living planet to survive or die like  everything else.
 
But of course, there are  exceptions, God willing.  Trail Pirates are 
important and would be kept  around.  :-)




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